ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the aspects emerging from Heinz Kimmerle’s early work could enhance epistemic justice. The first thirty years of his philosophical research helped Kimmerle to reveal forgotten aspects that could offer openings to intercultural philosophy, such as Hegel’s idea ‘that there is no development in philosophical content’ in his early Jena writings. Kimmerle’s work therefore can be read as an invitation to critically reflect both on content as on methods used and to ask how these can contribute to epistemic justice. To Schleiermacher dialectics and hermeneutics belong together. Dialectics is the study of the thinking, grammatic is the concrete linguistic form, and hermeneutics is the art of understanding. Derrida deconstructs Hegel’s Phanomenologie des Geistes in order to show how women have been excluded from participation in civil society and the draws comparisons with Hegel’s relation with his own sister.
